March 5, 2008

• Bits of Fun
  
  If you like to play online flash games (type of file, not flashers), Wit has a great site he updates often:  http://www.thesellers.org/David/Games.  I know he’d love to have more people check it out.
  
  I found this list on jaelbee2′s site, and I thought it was hilarious.  If you weren’t a girl in the 1970′s, you won’t find it nearly so amusing.  (I made the comments in brackets.)
  

  If You Were a Little Girl in the 70′s……

  You had that Fisher Price Doctor’s Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
  

  You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it. [Mine was purple.]
  

  You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
  

  You had either a bowl cut or pixie, not to mention the “Dorothy Hamill.” People sometimes thought you were a boy.

  You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
  

  You owned a Slip-n-Slide, on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once. [I was always jealous of the Slip-n-Slide owners.]
  

  Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession. [I had the Holly Hobbie dollhouse and a HH birthday cake one year]
  

  You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers. [My knickers were brown corduroy with a matching blazer and vest which I wore with an off-white ruffled shirt. Oh, yeah.]
  

  You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon. [And I got it! I also got Merlin, which I loved.]
  

  You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or The Sunshine family [Remember them? They had flat feet. How about Malibu Barbie in the red-orange swimsuit?]
  

  You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
  

  You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.  

  You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really badly. You wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture, and you despised Nellie Oleson!
  

  Your hairstyle was described as having wings or feathers and you kept it pretty with the comb you kept in your back pocket. When you walked, the wings flapped up and down, looked like you were gonna ‘take off’. [Especially if you used hot rollers like I did. Oh, for a curling iron...]
  

  You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie. [I'd pretend that Lemon Meringue married Huckleberry Pie and called her Lemon Meringue Pie. I can still remember how those dolls smell...]
  

  You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic with the thermos inside. Some were glass inside and broke the first time you dropped them.
  

  You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend. [I always went for Luke, the brunette.]
  

  YOU had Star Wars action figures, too! [Well, I'd play with my brother's.]
  

  It was a big event in your household each year when The Wizard of Oz would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags! [For us it was the Charlie Brown specials]
  

  You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick decoupage,or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom. [My mom still has some of those potholders.]
  

  You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts! [I also made fake stained glass with plastic pellets.]
  

  You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker. [You may be wrong, but you may be ri-iight!]
  

  You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. [We must, we must. Increase our bust.]
  

  You thought Olivia Newton John’s song Physical was about aerobics. [Aw, she looked so wholesome!  My childhood is shattered. Just like the guy who discovered his angel is a centerfold.]
  

  You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs [I LOVED my velour rainbow shirt!]
  

  You drowned yourself in Love’s Baby Soft – which was the first “real” perfume you ever owned. [My geometry teacher was allergic to it, so we'd spray ourselves copiously before we went into class.]
  

  You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lip-gloss till it almost dripped off.

  
  

  What would you add to the list?

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